About
Expectation Vs. Reality refers to a serie of images and videos featuring, commonly, two borders comparing the expectations of a task and its poor realities, similar to What I Watched / What I Expected / What I Got.
Origin
The first usage of Expectation Vs. Reality is from a scene of the movie (500) Days of Summer (shown below, left), wich was released on January 17th, 2009. On February 22nd, 2010 the user jemapellenedge posted a video titled “Expectation vs. Reality” (shown below, right), wich is the earliest known usage of Expectation Vs. Reality online.
Spread
On April 2011, the Expectation Reality[1] Tumblr was created. Currently it has has over 190 pages of posts featuring various examples of Expectation Vs. Reality.
On February 15th, 2013 the youtuber nigahiga posted a video called “Expectations vs Reality: Romance” (shown below, left). In 2 years, the video has gained over 8.000.000 views and 29.000 comments. On July 8th, 2013 the youtuber IISuperwomanII posted a video with notable examples of Expectation Vs. Reality. In 10 months, the video has gained over 4.000.000 views and 9.900 comments .
Various Examples
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Image may be NSFW.
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Image may be NSFW.
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Image may be NSFW.
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Image may be NSFW.
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Image may be NSFW.
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Search Interest
External References
[1]Tumblr – Expectation Reality
